GIS as a technology has come a long way, from the
early adoption of technical wizardry to the ubiquitous,
if unconscious use by the masses. The creation
of the GISociety is on its way through technological
development, theoretical and empirical scientific
research and inclusion of technology into education
with increasing pedagogical justification.
Defining new dimensions of hard- and software,
brainware and orgware are all needed to further
develop the GISociety.

The Geoinformatics Forum (www.gi-forum.org)
held in Salzburg from July 2-5, 2013, links into these
research areas. We are pleased to present work
by researchers who actively contribute to the creation
of the GISociety in theoretical, technical, and
educational terms. This reflects that a GISociety can
only be created though close interaction among
the domains of science, technology and education.
Topics of the 2013 proceedings therefore include:
• Advances in Geographic Information Science
and Geographic Information Technology
• Spatial Citizenship
• Education for Digital Earth
• Ecosystem and Biodiversity Monitoring:
Best Practice in Europe and Globally (EO4Hab)

The book is aimed at researchers and practioners in
the field geoinformation with an academic, industrial
or educational background.

Work on this publication has been co-funded by the following projects and networks
funded by the European commission:
LLP-Comenius multilateral project SPACIT
(517908-LLP-2011-1-AT-COMENIUS-CMP)
LLP-Comenius network digital-earth.eu (510010-LLP-1-2010-1-AT -COMENIUS-CNW)
FP7-SPACE project MS.MONINA (FP7-SPA-2010-1-263479)
FP7-SPACE project BIO_SOS (FP7-SPA-2010-1-263435)

Abstract:Scientists dealing with geospatial information usually work with huge sets of heterogeneous geographic data derived from different sources. Without a well-defined and organized structure they face problems in finding and reusing existing spatial data. Due to the increasing amount of collected data, the risk of data redundancy arises, which may cause data inconsistency, space issues and search difficulties. A spatial cataloguing system can facilitate a more efficient spatial data search as well as allowing data exchange with different institutions. Our proposed solution is implementing a spatial cataloguing system along with an automatic rule-based approach metadata generator that processes remote sensing data in Near Real Time (NRT) and simultaneously derives metadata. This paper will further describe how to extract the relevant metadata from the processed data and how we converted this heterogeneous metadata information into a common standardized format. A real-world scenario applied in The European Academy (EURAC) Research Institute for Applied Remote Sensing (IARS) illustrates the procedure of data processing and metadata generation.

GIS as a technology has come a long way, from the
early adoption of technical wizardry to the ubiquitous,
if unconscious use by the masses. The creation
of the GISociety is on its way through technological
development, theoretical and empirical scientific
research and inclusion of technology into education
with increasing pedagogical justification.
Defining new dimensions of hard- and software,
brainware and orgware are all needed to further
develop the GISociety.

The Geoinformatics Forum (www.gi-forum.org)
held in Salzburg from July 2-5, 2013, links into these
research areas. We are pleased to present work
by researchers who actively contribute to the creation
of the GISociety in theoretical, technical, and
educational terms. This reflects that a GISociety can
only be created though close interaction among
the domains of science, technology and education.
Topics of the 2013 proceedings therefore include:
• Advances in Geographic Information Science
and Geographic Information Technology
• Spatial Citizenship
• Education for Digital Earth
• Ecosystem and Biodiversity Monitoring:
Best Practice in Europe and Globally (EO4Hab)

The book is aimed at researchers and practioners in
the field geoinformation with an academic, industrial
or educational background.

Work on this publication has been co-funded by the following projects and networks
funded by the European commission:
LLP-Comenius multilateral project SPACIT
(517908-LLP-2011-1-AT-COMENIUS-CMP)
LLP-Comenius network digital-earth.eu (510010-LLP-1-2010-1-AT -COMENIUS-CNW)
FP7-SPACE project MS.MONINA (FP7-SPA-2010-1-263479)
FP7-SPACE project BIO_SOS (FP7-SPA-2010-1-263435)

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